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Access to education is something everyone strives for but not all achieve–especially education that leads to meaningful and well-paying work. In today’s world where software is eating all sorts of industries, access to a good technical education is still out of the reach of many people.

Laboratoria is a social enterprise which teaches women from low-income backgrounds in Peru, Mexico and Chile how to code and helps place them in coding jobs. It was started in Peru by couple Mariana Costa (CEO) and Herman Marin (CTO) along with a friend after they found it difficult to hire developers for a web agency they had started.

In today’s episode, Mariana talks to Carl Mungazi about how Laboratoria is using software engineering to change the lives of the women in Latin America whilst also meeting a demand for good technical talent. She discusses the challenges faced by her students, who sometimes spend hours traveling to the school, and her plans for training 10,000 developers over the next five years.

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Software engineers have a skill set that can be applied to solve problems outside of a codebase. Analytical skills can be used to evaluate investment opportunities. Creative thinking can be used to build businesses. Communication skills can be used to build and enhance relationships.

John Sonmez is a software engineer who created the Simple Programmer, a community of developers who discuss strategies around software, business, and life. He joined me on the show to discuss these topics and others, as well as his new book The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide.

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SE Radio: John Sonmez, Marketing Yourself and Managing Your Career

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“Culture fit” is a term that is used to describe engineers that have the right personality for a given company. In the hiring process, “lack of culture fit” is used to turn away engineers who are good enough at coding but just don’t seem right for the company. As today’s guest Ammon Bartram says, “lack of culture fit” usually means “lack of enthusiasm for what a company does.”

Ammon is the co-founder of Triplebyte, a company that is debugging the interviewing process. Triplebyte has interviewed thousands of engineers, and is discovering which aspects of the current hiring process make sense and which are based on superstition, or tradition. We had a great conversation about what culture really means, and how to hire effectively.

Check out our new topic feeds, in iTunes or wherever you find your podcasts. We’ve sorted all 500 of our old episodes into categories like business, blockchain, cloud engineering, JavaScript, machine learning, and greatest hits. Whatever specific area of software you are curious about, we have a feed for you. Check the show notes for more details.

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The history of computing can be thought of as a series of ideas rather than objects. From Aristotle’s formalization of the syllogism, to Alan Turing’s model for an all-purpose computing machine, to Satoshi Nakamoto’s distributed transaction ledger–these breakthroughs did not come in the form of polished, tangible objects. In fact, the objects which end up changing computing fundamentally are often built from ideas that seemed trivial at first glance.

Chris Dixon is a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and is the author of the article How Aristotle Created the Computer. One job of a venture capitalist is to be early in identifying the ideas that will evolve into influential, tangible objects. In this article, Chris examined several instances in the history of computing where ideas that looked weird and impractical at first glance ended up being world-changing. Recent examples we discussed are blockchains and neural networks.

Chris recently wrote a great article about crypto tokens.

Check out our new topic feeds, in iTunes or wherever you find your podcasts. We’ve sorted all 500 of our old episodes into categories like business, blockchain, cloud engineering, JavaScript, machine learning, and greatest hits. Whatever specific area of software you are curious about, we have a feed for you. Check the show notes for more details.

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Search engines run our lives. The path we take to information is dictated by Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other forms of search. Search engines feel objective and truthful, but are built through ongoing experimentation and subjective decision making.

That’s what has kept Danny Sullivan writing about search engines for twenty years.

The content Google prioritizes, the ads that we see, the way that a product review changes how highly a search result appears on a search; these are the topics that Danny studies. He is the founder of Search Engine Land, an invaluable resource for news and updates about search engines and marketing. I’ve been reading Search Engine Land since college, so it was a treat to sit down for a conversation with him.

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